WALKEYS AT CAMBRIDGE and OXFORD UNIVERSITIES. The following extracts are taken from Alumni Cantabrigiensis and Alumni Oxoniensis. They were copied by Eardley Bryan on 2nd May 1991 and were taken directly from photocopies made in the library of the Society of Genealogists in London. I have sorted them into chronological order.
OXFORD
WALKEY, SAMUEL, s. S., of Alphington, Devon, pleb. CHRIST CHURCH, matric 17 Feb., 1704 5, aged 17, bar. at law, Inner Temple, 1712. See Foster's "Judges and Barristers". [Alumni Oxoniensis].
WALKEY, CHARLES ELLIOTT, s. Benjamin, of St. Anne's, Westminster, gent. BALLIOL COLL., matric 26 Mar 1798, aged 17; B.A. 1802, rector of Clyst St. Lawrence, Devon, 1804, father of Charles Collyns. [Alumni Oxoniensis].
WALKEY, CHARLES COLLYNS. 1s. Charles Elliott, of Exeter, cler. BALLIOL COLL., matric. 21 June, 1821, aged 16; scholar WORCESTER COLL. 1823 30, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, fellow 1830 2, head master Lucton school, co. Hereford, and Vicar of Lucton 1831 73, died 4 June, 1887. [Alumni Oxoniensis]. See his handwritten Family Tree. EWHB.
CAMBRIDGE
WALKEY, JAMES ROWLAND. Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, July 28, 1899. [2nd] s. of Col. Rowland, R.A. (and Lucy, dau. of Robert Chamberlin, of Catton, Norwich). B. [Apr. 10, 1880], at Woolwich. School, South Eastern College, Ramsgate. Matric. Michs. 1899; B.A. 1902; M.A. 1906. Football (rugby) 'blue,' 1902. Ord. deacon (Ely) 1903; priest, 1905; C. of St Cuthbert's, Bedford, 1903 5. Acting C.F. at Bulford and Bordon camp, 1905 7. C. of All Saints, Plumstead, Kent, 1907 10. C. of St John the Evang., Blackheath, 1910 11. Served in the Great War, 1914 19 (C.F.; with the B.E.F.; mentioned in despatches, 1915). Deputy Chaplain in Chief, R.A.F., 1918; in Iraq 1922 4; Egypt, 1924 6; Flowerdown and Worthydown, 1926 7; Halton, 1927 33; Chaplain in Chief R.A.F., 1933 40. Hon. Chaplain to H.M. the King, 1934 40. Select Preacher, at Cambridge, 1935. V. of Wateringbury, Kent, 1940 3. R. of Worting, Hants., 1943 6. R. of Angmering with Ham and Bargham, Sussex, 1946 9. V. of Haversham, Bucks., 1949 50. V. of Moreton, Dorset, 1951 2 . Married, Oct. 9, 1906, Bijou Frances, 3rd dau. of Henry Gresham Paske, of Needham Market, Suffolk, and had issue. (Peile, II. 834; Crockford; Who's Who; Burke L.G.) [Alumni Cantabrigiensis].
Note. The date for his leaving Moreton is as copied from the entry. It should read Oct. 1959. He died in Jan. 1960.
I have also included the next entry, as an uncle. (EWHB).
WALKEY, CHARLES JOHN ELLIOTT, 1s. of Charles Collyns, of Lucton, co. Hereford, cler. LINCOLN COLL., matric 11 Dec., 1852, aged 19; B.A. 1857, M.A. 1859, vicar of Llantrisant with Pertholey 1861 70, rector of Cornwell, Oxon, 1874 85. [Alumni Oxoniensis].
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